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Shiraz A Sabah

BSc FRCS(Orth)

Education

Specialist Registrar in Trauma & Orthopaedics

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation

London

Current - 2014

DPhil student, Musculoskeletal Sciences

University of Oxford

Oxford

2023 - 2019

Core Surgical Trainee

London Deanery

London

2014 - 2012

Academic Foundation Trainee

London Deanery

London

2012 - 2010

Medical Student

Imperial College School of Medicine

London

2010 - 2004

School

St. Michael’s School

Llanelli

2004 - 2000

Qualifications

FRCS(Tr&Orth)

Royal College of Surgeons of England

N/A

2019

MRCS

Royal College of Surgeons of England

N/A

2013

MRCP Parts 1&2 written

Royal College of Physicians

N/A

2012

MBBS

Imperial College School of Medicine

N/A

2010

BSc in Surgery & Anaesthesia (First class)

Imperial College London

N/A

2008

Prizes

WJ Little Medal

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation

N/A

2018

Grants

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

£291,045

N/A

2024 - 2021

Rosetrees Trust Surgical Trials Fellow

£8,000

N/A

2021 - 2019

Royal College of Surgeons One Year Fellowship

£68,000

N/A

2021 - 2020

Leadership & Management

Editorial Board Member

Bone & Joint Journal

N/A

Current - 2021

Oxford Executive Leadership Programme

Said Business School, University of Oxford

N/A

2022

Seddon Society Meeting Organiser

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation

N/A

2019 - 2017

Employment

ST8 registrar (Joint reconstruction & Sarcoma)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

N/A

Apr 2023 - Oct 2022

  • Supervisor: Mr W Aston

DPhil student, Musculoskeletal Sciences

University of Oxford

N/A

Oct 2022 - Oct 2019

  • Supervisor: Prof AJ Price

ST7 registrar (Joint reconstruction & Sarcoma)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

N/A

Oct 2019 - Oct 2018

  • Supervisor: Prof JA Skinner / Mr R Pollock / Prof AJ Hart

ST6 registrar (Hand surgery)

Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital

N/A

Oct 2018 - Apr 2018

  • Supervisor: Mr S Phillips

ST5/6 registrar (Joint reconstruction)

Watford General Hospital

N/A

Apr 2018 - Apr 2017

  • Supervisor: Mr N Davies / Mr S West

ST5 registrar (Spinal surgery)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

N/A

Apr 2017 - Oct 2016

  • Supervisor: Mr K Rezajooi

ST4 registrar (Foot & ankle surgery / Joint reconstruction)

Queen’s Hospital, Romford

N/A

Oct 2016 - Oct 2015

  • Supervisors: Mr K Vemulapalli / Mr J Wong

ST3 registrar (Paediatric orthopaedic surgery)

Great Ormond Street Hospital

N/A

Oct 2015 - Apr 2015

  • Supervisor: Mr G Spence

ST3 registrar (Foot & ankle surgery)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

N/A

Apr 2015 - Oct 2014

  • Supervisor: Mr A Goldberg

Core Surgical Trainee

Royal London Hospital / Barnet General Hospital

N/A

Oct 2014 - Oct 2012

Academic Foundation Trainee

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital / St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington

N/A

Aug 2012 - Aug 2010

Teaching

I am faculty on several national FRCS(Orth) courses and have received excellent feedback for teaching. I am developing a multimedia Trauma & Orthopaedics curriculum with the Bone & Joint Journal.

Bone & Joint Education

Bone & Joint Journal

N/A

Current - 2021

ST3 Interview Course Convenor

Orthopaedic Research UK

N/A

Current - 2014

FRCS(Tr&Orth) Course Faculty

Orthopaedic Research UK

N/A

Current - 2019

Research

My research centres around understanding patient-relevant outcomes following primary and revision hip and knee replacement.

Find more information on my Google Scholar profile: 60 scientific publications, 1593 citations, h-index: 17.

Re-revision Knee Arthroplasty in a Tertiary Center: Infection and Multiple Previous Surgeries Were Associated With Poor Early Clinical and Functional Outcomes.

von Fritsch L, Sabah SA, Xu J, Price AJ, Merle C, Alvand A. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 2023 Jan 27

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2023

No exponential rise in revision knee replacement surgery over the past 15 years: An analysis from the National Joint Registry

SA Sabah, R Knight, A Alvand, DW Murray, S Petrou, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (in press)

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2022

Implant survivorship, functional outcomes and complications with the use of rotating hinge knee implants: a systematic review

J Xu, L von Fritsch, SA Sabah, AJ Price, A Alvand. Knee Surgery & Related Research. Dec;34(1):1-1.

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2022

Self-reported neurotoxic symptoms in hip arthroplasty patients with highly elevated blood cobalt: a case-control study

I Swiatkowska, J Henckel, SA Sabah, AJ Hart. Journal of Patient Safety. 18 (1), e10-e17

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2022

Minimal important changes and differences were estimated for Oxford hip and knee scores following primary and revision arthroplasty

SA Sabah, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 143, 159-168

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2022

Revision total knee replacement case-mix at a major revision centre

SA Sabah, L von Fritsch, T Khan, AD Shearman, RB Rajasekaran, …. Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics. 9 (1), 1-9

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2022

Early patient-reported outcomes following primary hip and knee replacement have improved over the past seven years: Analysis of the NHS PROMs dataset

SA Sabah, R Knight, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Bone and Joint Journal.

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2022

Revision knee replacement for prosthetic joint infection: Epidemiology, clinical outcomes and health-economic considerations

SA Sabah, A Alvand, AJ Price. The Knee. 28, 417-421

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2021

Evidence for the validity of a patient-based instrument for assessment of outcome after revision knee arthroplasty: evaluation of the Oxford Knee Score using a UK national …

SA Sabah, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Bone & Joint Journal. 103 (4), 627-634

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2021

Patient-Reported function and quality of life after revision total knee arthroplasty: an analysis of 10,727 patients from the NHS PROMs program

SA Sabah, A Alvand, R Knight, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 36 (8), 2887-2895. e7

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2021

Differences in mortality and complication rates following revision knee arthroplasty performed for urgent versus elective indications

SGF Abram, SA Sabah, A Alvand, AJ Price. The Bone & Joint Journal. 103 (10), 1578-1585

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2021

New instrumentation system for cementless mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty improves surgical performance particularly for trainees

A Alvand, HA Wilson, SA Sabah, R Middleton, N Bottomley, WFM Jackson, …. The Knee. 31, 46-53

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2021

Metal ion toxicity: is it still a problem in 2021?

JA Skinner, SA Sabah, AJ Hart. Bone & Joint Research. 10 (6), 348-350

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2021

An update on prosthetic joint infection for UK trainees

SA Sabah, AD Shearman, A Alvand. Surgery (Oxford). 39 (11), 748-751

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2021

Patient-reported outcome measures following revision knee replacement: a review of PROM instrument utilisation and measurement properties using the COSMIN checklist

SA Sabah, EA Hedge, SGF Abram, A Alvand, AJ Price, S Hopewell. BMJ open. 11 (10), e046169

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2021

The last word on placebo-controlled surgical trials

S Sabah, A Alvand. Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics. 9 (2)

N/A

2021

Management of aseptic failure of the mobile-bearing Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

SA Sabah, CT Lim, R Middleton, L von Fritsch, N Bottomley, …. The Knee. 27 (6), 1721-1728

N/A

2020

Manipulation under anesthetic after primary knee arthroplasty is associated with a higher rate of subsequent revision surgery

SGF Abram, B Yusuf, A Alvand, SA Sabah, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 35 (9), 2640-2645. e2

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2020

Novel use of intraoperative cone-beam imaging with on-table angiography for excision of an occipitocervical tumour: A technical note and its feasibility

Z Su, GK Prezerakos, S Sabah, K Rezajooi. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery. 22, 100784

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2020

Commentary: Debridement, antibiotics and implant retention (DAIR) for the management of knee prosthetic joint infection

SA Sabah, WFM Jackson. Journal of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery. 1 (3)

N/A

2020

Cervical dural calcification and cervical myelopathy in X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets: a case report and review of the literature

AA Najefi, DB Beder, SA Sabah, K Rezajooi. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 33 (2), 222-223

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2019

The risk of cardiac failure following metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty

SA Sabah, JC Moon, S Jenkins-Jones, CL Morgan, CJ Currie, …. The Bone & Joint Journal. 100 (1), 20-27

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2018

The silhouette technique: improving post-operative radiographs for planning of correction with a hexapod external fixator

J Wright, SA Sabah, S Patel, G Spence. Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction. 12 (2), 127-131

N/A

2017

Are all metal-on-metal hip revision operations contributing to the National Joint Registry implant survival curves? A study comparing the London Implant Retrieval Centre and …

SA Sabah, J Henckel, S Koutsouris, R Rajani, H Hothi, JA Skinner, …. The bone & joint journal. 98 (1), 33-39

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2016

Higher blood cobalt and chromium levels in patients with unilateral metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasties compared to hip resurfacings

OS Lainiala, TPS Moilanen, AJ Hart, HSA Huhtala, SA Sabah, …. The journal of arthroplasty. 31 (6), 1261-1266

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2016

Validated method for measuring functional range of motion in patients with ankle arthritis

J Thornton, S Sabah, N Segaren, N Cullen, D Singh, A Goldberg. Foot & Ankle International. 37 (8), 868-873

N/A

2016

Calculating the hip center of rotation using contralateral pelvic anatomy

M Durand‐Hill, J Henckel, K Satchithananda, S Sabah, J Hua, H Hothi, …. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 34 (6), 1077-1083

N/A

2016

Assessment of emergency department eye examinations in patients presenting with mid-face injury

T Welman, K Shanmugarajah, S Sabah, J Bryan, N Hachach-Haram, …. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 50 (3), 422-426

N/A

2016

Measuring Functional Range of Motion in Patients with Ankle Arthritis

AJ Goldberg, JD Thornton, SA Sabah, N Segaren, N Cullen, D Singh. Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics. 1 (1), 2473011416S00033

N/A

2016

The unforeseen costs of MHRA guidance to resurfacing hip replacement in the UK

J Davidson, S Sabah, R Berber, H Hothi, J Miles, R Carrington, A Power, …. Orthopaedic Proceedings. 98 (SUPP_11), 22-22

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2016

Validation of primary metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties on the National Joint Registry for England, Wales and Northern Ireland using data from the London Implant Retrieval …

SA Sabah, J Henckel, E Cook, R Whittaker, H Hothi, Y Pappas, G Blunn, …. The bone & joint journal. 97 (1), 10-18

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2015

Lessons learnt from metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties will lead to safer innovation for all medical devices

AJ Hart, SA Sabah, J Henckel, G Lloyd, JA Skinner. Hip International. 25 (4), 347-354

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2015

Method for the location of primary wear scars from retrieved metal on metal hip replacements

G Govind, J Henckel, H Hothi, S Sabah, J Skinner, A Hart. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 16 (1), 1-5

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2015

Surveillance of patients with metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and total hip prostheses: a prospective cohort study to investigate the relationship between blood metal ion levels …

AJ Hart, SA Sabah, B Sampson, JA Skinner, JJ Powell, L Palla, …. JBJS. 96 (13), 1091-1099

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2014

A comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of MARS MRI and ultrasound of the painful metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty

IA Siddiqui, SA Sabah, K Satchithananda, AK Lim, S Cro, J Henckel, …. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (4), 375-382

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2014

Cross-sectional imaging of metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties: can we substitute MARS MRI with CT?

E Robinson, J Henckel, S Sabah, K Satchithananda, J Skinner, A Hart. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (6), 577-584

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2014

Changes in blood ion levels after removal of metal-on-metal hip replacements: 16 patients followed for 0–12 months

SK Durrani, PC Noble, B Sampson, T Panetta, AD Liddle, SA Sabah, …. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (3), 259-265

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2014

The effect of a manufacturer recall on the threshold to revise a metal-on-metal hip

S Tibrewal, S Sabah, J Henckel, A Hart. International orthopaedics. 38 (10), 2017-2020

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2014

Optimisation of intramedullary nail alignment

SA Sabah, J Singh, N Heidari. The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 96 (2), 166-166

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2014

Investigating the Painful Metal-on-Metal Hip: Is CT a Substitute for Metal Artefact Reduction Sequence MRI?

E Robinson, S Sabah, J Henckel, K Satchithananda, M Khoo, TM Parsons, …. .

N/A

2014

Revision of metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty in a tertiary center: a prospective study of 39 hips with between 1 and 4 years of follow-up

AD Liddle, K Satchithananda, J Henckel, SA Sabah, KV Vipulendran, …. Acta orthopaedica. 84 (3), 237-245

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2013

Cross-sectional imaging of the metal-on-metal hip prosthesis: the London ultrasound protocol

IA Siddiqui, SA Sabah, K Satchithananda, AK Lim, J Henckel, JA Skinner, …. Clinical Radiology. 68 (8), e472-e478

N/A

2013

Routine surgical outpatient follow-up one year after carotid endarterectomy does not result in medical or surgical reintervention

S Sabah, R Geleit, S Sarkar, C Kyriakides. International Journal of Surgery. 8 (11), 744-745

N/A

2013

Pseudotumors in association with well-functioning metal-on-metal hip prostheses: a case-control study using three-dimensional computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

AJ Hart, K Satchithananda, AD Liddle, SA Sabah, D McRobbie, J Henckel, …. JBJS. 94 (4), 317-325

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2012

Objective assessment of initial eye examination in patients presenting with mid-face injuries

K Shanmugarajah, S Sabah, T Welman, S Westley, R Skinner, N Haram, …. International Journal of Surgery. 8 (10), S67

N/A

2012

Sensitivity and specificity of blood cobalt and chromium metal ions for predicting failure of metal-on-metal hip replacement

AJ Hart, SA Sabah, AS Bandi, P Maggiore, P Tarassoli, B Sampson, …. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume. 93 (10), 1308-1313

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2011

Magnetic resonance imaging findings in painful metal-on-metal hips: a prospective study

SA Sabah, AWM Mitchell, J Henckel, A Sandison, JA Skinner, AJ Hart. The Journal of arthroplasty. 26 (1), 71-76. e2

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2011

Sabah SA Bandi AS Maggiore P Tarassoli P Sampson BA Skinner J. Sensitivity and specificity of blood cobalt and chromium metal ions for predicting failure of metal-on-metal hip …

AJ Hart. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 93 (10), 1308-13

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2011

The painful metal-on-metal hip resurfacing

AJ Hart, S Sabah, J Henckel, A Lewis, J Cobb, B Sampson, A Mitchell, …. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume. 91 (6), 738-744

N/A

2009

References

Professor John A. Skinner

Professor of Orthopaedics
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore

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Mr Will Aston

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore

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